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Hi all
Any info would be gratefully received, I have a little info from the web.
They seem to disappear soon after listing but I managed to snag this one
as an auction ebay item number...

Hi all
I asked about condition and if he would put a buy it now price, got a positive answer
and was working out my offer, when I saw it end I thought Geoff had got it, all this
with in minutes of...

I sat on that treasure for year or so which was a little uncomfortable :eek: all that money will help me recover.
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Sven

Bill
I'll own up to post 58 but I had forgotten about PM's don't use them so often.
A mistake but lets keep the thread to sales info.
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Sven

Thanks Jim
I hoped this thread would be useful to report "Completed listings" rather than a dinner bell
for a feeding frenzy!!! I run searches anyway don't need help finding stuff!!!
So lets have...

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I'll own up to being the winner of this 160522070863 on its way to be mounted on my new to me 4x5 RB Graflex Slr.
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Sven

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I have a 150 Sinaron WS with a touch of fungus in the front cell not very much but still present, it is left from some sinar gear I cherry picked before selling the rest. So who do I send it to...

Thanks Phil
I'll get on the phone then. I've done G Clarons, Germinar W and Perigon before.
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Sven

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I have a 150mm sinaron se (red stripe) in a Db mount for sinar shutter and a Copal 0 in need of the correct aperture scale. Should I remount the lens myself? there is a shim on the front element...

I know this isn't the "biggest steal ...." thread but my Eidoscope No2 cost me 200 euro's
a buy it now from Italy and it rattled all the way badly packed but my luck held out with no damage to the...

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Sorry Klaus forgot about PM, you have first dibs on the k@losat anyway and all those other ebayers should respect that!!
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Sven

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Sorry I couldn't help it,1919 Kalosat on ebay item 170542216361.
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Sven

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Ebay 260663136614 purchase arrived today 9" Kershaw Soft Focus F4.5 No 331 for a total of £39 and a question would the red filter do anything different when used with a
soft focus lens?...

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I have an orphan portrait combination and no other cells, it is a petzval I confirmed that when I cleaned it. Mine is marked Darlot Opticiens paris 1008, not a lot of help!
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Sven

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Its not been working for some time, I usual have to phone but they have a paypal account for ebay maybe the could send a paypal invoice (if you use paypal that is).
Always worth watching what...

Hi Marko

This thread maybe a slow burner but a valid one! I have been looking with one eye to the landscape and the other to still-life when testing soft-focus lenses. My still-life space is below...

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One of my Petzvals may take the title in my Lens cupboard either a Lerebours et Secretan or one with a crest and J S or a landscape lens Swift & Son View 12x10 No620
which seems low.
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Wish I had more time to shoot at the moment and could post some results as well, so for now you'll have to make do with pics of the thing itself.
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Sven

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There is an Iris but no scale, just some pencil marks from a previous owner which seem to mark the sweet spots at least visually. I have been puzzling out a way to measure the hole in mm's I...

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I have found some time to scan a ad for the Portland from 1926 Bjp annual, also a similar Italian lens note the similar discriptions, the koristka Ars is much more meniscue in shape.
I have the...

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See the attatchment for the catalogue scan its in french.

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Sven

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Paid 200 euro's for my example a No 2, I was lucky. One on Ebay at the moment with camera attatched item number 260539390976.
I have a hermagis catalogue with the eidoscope listed not much...

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A classic book "Looking at the Overlooked - Four Essays on Still Life Painting by Norman Bryson" helps focus ideas, so its time I re-read it.

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Sven

Here is some info (see attachment) its from an E Francis set which appears to be made by hermagis and was interchangable with the hermagis set I sold (to Hollis).
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Sven

Hi Tony

If your going to keep your lenses on technika panels then ignore this, but if you're going to have lenses unique to the gowland then I would make them with 3mm black ABS plastic sheet...

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There was a thread here around the time the staff re-started, the new name and website http://www.custombellows.co.uk/

Hope this helps
Sven

Roger

Its a combination of things including

My Studio set up.

The film was 4x5 Berger 200, dev in ilford LC29 with a time reduced by a third and then a Borax bath for the time taken off (I...

Thanks Jason

When it arrived the flat side wasn't facing the subject, so from experience I switched it,
It was also thicker than I was expecting.

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Sven

...here are a couple

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Sven

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Anyone have a serial number list, the 9" example I just picked up is number 147 which seems early? also it came with the element what I would assume was the wrong way around ie ) I've...

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Also over on ebay item number 120384389195, 10hrs to go and still for pennys.
I am not bidding or conected to the auction just a heads up.

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Sven

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A 210 Schneider "Repro Claron" (not G Claron) may not be a plasmat but comes in a copal/compur 0 and thereby tiny and should fit.
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Sven

Hi Joe

Again welcome to the forum.

Regards from Sunny Morecambe.

Sven

Hi all

I agree Gandolfi = Beauty in form and function, I've notched up 3 so far and maybe 4 I am tempted by the 10x12 Gandolfi @ Mwclassics. It seems under priced even if it only has 10x8 back.
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Hi Ole

Thanks for the correction, maths is not a strong point with me, I am sure I have number blindness as well as word blindness.
Thanks and Regards
Sven

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Attached is the table from the Hermagis 1925 Catalogue so hope it helps.
Hollis, I don't think I have a table for your set, but with a berthiot set I found a
cheque stub with the focal...

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Oop's, Sorry Hollis I now realise its the conversion chart from the set I kept (the E Francis trousse rectilinear multipules). Its still here in the casket so to speak.
Again apoligies to...

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Thats the conversion table from the set I sold to hollis on ebay which is an earlier set? not marked Aplanastimatique? I have a Hermagis catalogue with " trousse d' Aplanastigmat Hermagis " as...

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Its really all in the name, if you dig about you can find lens giving similar results. Is the winner of that auction going to use the thing? I picked up the attached lens for £40 its a 410mm F6...

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Glad you're pleased with it Hollis, the set that I kept has instructions, its similar to the hermagis but marked " E Francis Paris - Rectilinea Foyers Multiples." and No 2. The build quality...